This small, remote border town is rapidly becoming one of the focal points of the drought emergency in the Horn of Africa.
Two thousand or so Somali refugees who are now arriving here each day from across the border are forcing a long-running refugee assistance operation to be ramped up to deal w...
British aid agencies are preparing to expand their activities in Somalia to help some of the 10 million people at risk of starvation in East Africa.
Relief operations have been constrained by the security situation in Somalia.
But Islamist militant group al-Shabab last week announced it was li...
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17 Jul 2011 (11 years ago )
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 17- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday morning took delivery of the first consignment of emergency tents destined for Dadaab refugee camp.
This is the first in a series of UNHCR emergency airlift flights to bring aid to uprooted Somalis in remote re...